"101st" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Seneca, in his 101st Letter, calls this "a most disgraceful and most contemptible wish;" but it may be paralleled out of Euripides, and still more closely out of Homer. "Talk not," says the shade of Achilles to Ulysses in ...
— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar
... Claudio, from the antipathy we have to death, seems very little varied from that infamous wish of Maecenas, recorded in the 101st ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge
... (Craig) is remarkably well: we celebrated the anniversary of his sixtieth year yesterday at a very pleasant party at Powell Place. Our general court martial is over, and will be published in orders to-morrow. A soldier, who was under sentence of death for desertion from the 101st regiment, and transferred to the 8th, and a Jonathan of the Canadians, who is considered a ringleader, are sentenced to be shot; the others, a dozen in number, are to be transported to serve for life in the ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper |
